<b>In The Civil War


Signed by the authors</b>


By Carl Moneyhon and Bobby Roberts. Published by The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 1990. Signed in ink on the title page by Moneyhon and Roberts. Hard cover, 8 3/4 x 11, with dust jacket, 356 pages, illustrated, and index. The book is in excellent condition and it is very difficult to find in the out of print hard cover edition. Extremely desirable.


The Civil War presented the first major opportunity to photograph fighting men and the places where they fought and to create an extensive visual record of war. Most collections of such photographs, however, have focused on the eastern fronts and have treated the images only as illustrations for traditional narratives.


Centering on the common soldier, &quot;Portraits of Conflict; Louisiana&quot; tells stories of the individual - his heroism, his fear, his boredom. With over 250 photographs, five maps, and related documents, Moneyhon and Roberts make immediate the physical and spiritual suffering of the ordinary recruit in his fight for his country and its land.


By carefully matching available written sources to photographs, the authors have created a unique opportunity for the reader to see the war on a human scale that may always elude conventional narratives. Included in this photojournalistic album are the place and date of the photograph, as well as the place and date of birth and death for many of the soldiers mentioned. For each picture, a caption identifies the subject and the type of photograph represented.